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New Vid - Practice Day (mostly on tip landing maneuvers)


Thomas Parpoulas

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Pics attached, noticed some wear on the bridles and the kite edge, for the bridles I tried an extra knot there in order to prevent them from getting cut at the weak point. For the sail edge I was thinking of fold & sew. The plastic and carbon parts got dirty, but all intact.

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You are totally right Chris, as for the bridles, I did tie that extra knot to both of them bridle edges, balance wise. The lighter trick worked well on the dacron, much easier than folding and sewing for sure! Thanks for the tip! But yep, a battle scarred kite is needed for that learning curve.

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next time you could try some little attachment loops (like an inch of diameter) for each bridle point affixing to the leading edge sleeve or caps. Then when the high wear shows it's ugly head you just replace the loop instead of the whole bridle.

Alternatively you could fabricate a new bridle "leg" just for those spots that show the highest wear.

here's a test of your bridle, ... when you pick it up by just the two attachment points for the top flying lines,

do all of the legs fetch-up tight?, if not adjust until they do

now do you want more leaning forward or backward? You could vary the lengths of the bottom attachment point inch loops easily Add a second one, go fly and see if it helps. This is easy experimentation!

After you are more comfortable testing you can add a couple of attachment points, one more and one less than stock, just to see how it impacts the flight dynamics. Here's a visual example.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10201221925485071&set=a.10200884097639586.1073741826.1079141123&type=1&theater

In this case the experiment is to see what the "closeness of the center attachment point" on a french bridle does,

if you vary the length by 50% or 200%

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